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Showing 1 to 20 of 157 for “"predicates"”.
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Madija predicates
… of an auxiliary verb which occurs with some predicates but not with others, the factors determining the choice among three different affixes marking third person agreement, and three different affixes indicating a plural subject. </p> <p> Using the framework of Relational Grammar, a unified …
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Complex Motion Predicates in Hiaki
… and it explores the extent to which complex predicates of motion may be said to form a discrete class crosslinguistically, either in structural or semantic terms, by comparing Hiaki with genetically and typologically distinct languages such as Korean and Warlpiri. The study asks the following …
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Embedded interrogatives and predicates that embed them
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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The effect of representational system predicates on relaxation
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Detection of separable predicates on series-parallel systems
… computations. We introduce two new classes of predicates, the monotonic predicates and the separable predicates. These classes generalize several classes of well-known predicates as the conjunctive predicates. We show that these classes are detected efficiently on distributed computations …
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Restructuring parameters and complex predicates--a transformational approach
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1988.
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Pairs and predicates in expansions of o-minimal structures
This thesis establishes new results concerning the interactions of some model-theoretic notions of tameness with other more geometric notions of tameness, among other properties. In particular, the results range from characterizing the existence of a model companion for a certain kind of extension …
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Learning noisy characters, multiplication codes, and cryptographic hardcore predicates
… and apply it to a broad family of functions and predicates, showing new hardcore predicates for well known one-way function candidates such as RSA and discrete-log as well as reproving old results in an entirely different way. Our proof framework extends the list-decoding method of Goldreich and …
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Selecting predicates for conditional invariant detection using cluster analysis
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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Pseudocoordination, serial verb constructions and multi-verb predicates: The relationship between form and structure
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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A theory of individual-level predicates based on blind mandatory implicatures : constraint promotion for optimality theory
… an implicature-based theory of individual-level predicates. The idea is that we cannot say '#John is sometimes tall' because the sentence triggers the scalar implicature that the alternative 'John is always tall' is false and this implicature mismatches with the piece of common knowledge that …
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Quantifier elimination and decidability of the theory of additive integer group augmented by predicates of multiplicative cyclic submonoids
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-14 without embargo terms
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Language on Holiday and the Philosophy of Mind: A Linguistically Sensitive Approach to Phenomenal Consciousness, Pain, and Psychological Predicates
… pain, and the extension of psychological predicates. Chapter 1 outlines my metaphilosophical views and gives a roadmap to the thesis. Chapter 2 argues that the ‘what-it’s-like’ phrase as it is characteristically used in the literature on phenomenal consciousness has a technical meaning. I …
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A longitudinal study of lexical development in young children with autism spectrum disorders
… lexical composition as evident in percentage of predicates/nominals; (2) order of emergence for predicate types and (3) predictive value of lexical variables for later grammatical development. ASD Groups were matched to typically developing group norms on total MCDI scores for each comparison. …
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Subatomic Semantics and the Active Participle in Egyptian Arabic
Egyptian Arabic sentences with active participle predicates license past, present, and future adverbials even though these sentences encode only the present tense. In this dissertation, I argue that the logical forms of sentences with active participle predicates involve existential quantification …
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Plural predication
… certain English sentences containing collective predicates resist paraphrase in first-order languages and even in first-order languages enriched with plural quantifiers. To capture such sentences I develop a language containing plural predicates. The introduction of plural predicates leads to an …
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Morphological process feeding in the formation of old english nouns: Zero-derivation, affixation and compounding
… process that gives way to each of the analysed predicates have been identified. The predicates, along with all their semantic and inflectional properties had previously been filed in the database Nerthus (www.nerthusproject.com). All in all, 16,694 predicates have been studied, of which 2,848 …
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A tool for automated inference in rule-based biological models
… tool can translate biological facts into Iota predicates, check predicates for satisfiability, and find models that satisfy predicates. We test our system against realistic use cases, and show that it can construct rule-based mechanistic models that are sound with respect to the semantics of …
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Neg-raising : polarity and presupposition
… in environments containing Neg-Raising predicates. In Chapter 2, a principled account is offered of a previously ill-understood contrast in NPI-licensing under stacked Neg-Raising predicates, first pointed out in Horn (1972). Also addressed are facts advanced in favor of the syntactic …
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Aspects of complex predicate formation in Romance
… Verb Incorporation will trigger complex predicates with MA verbs. On the other hand, the lack of Agr in the Infl of French infinitival clauses will be claimed to be responsible for the non licensing of complex predicates with MA verbs in this language.
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